From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:26:55 -0500 > So as far as I can tell you are advocating for a change to support a > driver doing something that is completely pointless. So no let's not > export this symbol. Please fix the driver to do something less > pointless instead. FLorian explained his reasoning for doing what he is doing in this specific driver and it made sense to me.